Big Ideas: Exploring Critical Pedagogy as a Pathway to Addressing Challenges in Healthcare
Join Dr. Stella Ng as she dives into the topic of preparing healthcare professionals to navigate the complex social landscape in healthcare. In this talk, she will discuss the challenges that come with teaching social determinants of health and cultural competence and why these approaches have received critique. Dr. Ng...
Racism and Access to Medicines
This seminar will discuss research findings on racism as a barrier to accessing medicines in the Canadian setting. Dr. Moscou and Aeda conducted a study to investigate the manifestations of structural racism and the impact of implicit bias on accessing medicines. Specifically, they undertook a scoping review using the STARLITE...
Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with Dr. Kate Tilling
Join us at the Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with: Dr. Kate Tilling Professor of Medical Statistics and MRC Investigator, Bristol Medical School (PHS) Bristol Population Health Science Institute MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit Free Hybrid Event | Registration Required Talk Title Selection Bias, Missing Data and Causal...
How Informed is Informed Refusal
Full Title: How Informed is Informed Refusal? Abstract: Valid consent in medical practice requires that the patient is relevantly informed. The degree and kind of information required by valid consent are both disputed, but it is widely agreed that this requirement is non-trivial. Since consent and refusal are opposed yet...
Cervical Cancer, Vaccine Equity, and Global Solidarity
Cervical Cancer, Vaccine Equity, and Global Solidarity: Fighting for the Health of Women and Girls Cervical cancer is preventable, yet more than 340,000 women die each year. Approximately 90% of these deaths take place in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where access to prophylactics, diagnostics and treatments for cervical cancer...
Using Immersive Technology as a Medium to Teach Empathy, Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Join the Ontario Nursing Informatics Group for an upcoming virtual education event! We are pleased to welcome Dr. Eva Peisachovich RN, PhD, an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at York University, to present her research on "Using Immersive Technology as a Medium to Teach Empathy, Interpersonal and Communication...
Fast, vast, and diverse: Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine programs
Canada's COVID-19 vaccination programs took a unique approach in several ways. During the pandemic, we saw shifts in federal rather than provincial purchasing, speed of authorization and implementation, expanding and changing vaccine recommendations over relatively short time frames, and extremely diverse programs throughout the country despite centralized recommendations from a...
Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar: “Heat Vulnerability in a Changing Climate.”
Title: Heat Vulnerability in a Changing Climate As the climate warms, exposure to extreme heat is expected to increase. This presentation will review the evidence for increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves globally and in Toronto, and explore the ways in which increasing exposure to heat intersects...
Commercial Determinants of Health and Policymaking: Bridging the Gap
This series is co-hosted by the Centre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. OVERVIEW The commercial determinants of health (CDOH) has emerged as a unifying concept bringing together a growing number of researchers studying...
Crosswalks with Census Data using R
This workshop will provide an introduction to harmonizing data across spatial scales, with a particular emphasis on creating geographic crosswalks. Often, spatially-resolved data are available at non-uniform scales, and In different data types. For example, a researcher may wish to summarize hospital locations (point data), environmental exposures (raster data) and...